Congratulations, American readers, you are the worst
tourists in the world, according to a recent survey conducted by Living Social,
the discount deal Web site, and Mandala Research.

Micro-bloggers on Sina Weibo,
the Chinese Twitter, didn't seem to feel too bad about Chinese tourists coming
in as a close second, with 15 percent of the 5,600 votes in five countries --
roughly 4,000 of which were from the U.S..

In Hong Kong, one often hears negative
comments about tourists from Mainland China. Many Hong Kongers complain that
Mainland tourists spit, don't wait their
turn in line at shops, and smoke in non-smoking venues. This disagreement, mostly over manners, has broken out into a kind of cold war between Hong Kongers and the
Mainland in the past
couple of years.

Sina Weibo reports that French tourists came in third, with 14 percent of the vote.